Lone Eagle Consulting Mission Statement
Lone Eagle Consulting strives to maintain the small circle of the very best
Internet learning pathways, requiring the least time and effort, to deliver
the highest levels of benefit and motivation for people of all cultures and literacy
levels.

NEW July 2006 Alaskan Resources are listed at the end of
this listing!

Realizing Cultural and Community Sustainability Through Internet Innovations
in Alaskan Native Villages http://lone-eagles.com/village-sustainability.htmA detailed review of strategies for community involvement to produce measurable
outcomes. Many grant templates and online self-directed resources are included.

Clarifying Opportunities for Alaskan Sustainable Community Technology Centershttp://lone-eagles.com/alaskan-centers.htm
A short review key issues related to community
Internet training, locally-owned Internet service providers, and sustainable centers.

Culturally-appropriate Internet Training for Alaskan Native Educatorshttp://lone-eagles.com/alaskan-educators.htm
A detailed account of fast-track Internet training
with a cultural emphasis for Alaskan Native educators and students based on actual
workshops.

A Native American Cross-cultural Internet Guide - "Echoes in the
Electronic Wind "http://lone-eagles.com/nativeguide.htm
A hands-on self-directed learner's Internet skills training guide with over 20 pages of
Native American and Alaskan Native web sites. Available in printed form; 177 pages.

Creating Effective Tribal Telecenters and Community Networkshttp://lone-eagles.com/telecenters.htm
A detailed prospectus for project directors on implementation strategies and related
resources.

Beyond Traditional Vocational Education:
Best Practices for Use of Computers and Internet for Native Communities http://lone-eagles.com/indian-voc-ed.htm
Specific recommendations for vocational educators in Indian country.

Good Neighbor's Guide to Community Networkinghttp://lone-eagles.com/cnguide.htm
Eleven chapters including lessons learned from ten years of community Internet projects
and a bibliography of community networking guides.

Building Learning CommunitiesWeb Tourhttp://lone-eagles.com/teled.htm
A extensive listing including two online courses for educators, three mini-courses for
adults,
as well as grantwriting tutorials, funding sources, and grant templates, such
as...

Making the Missing Connections A Wake-up Call
Regarding True Community Internet Empowermenthttp://lone-eagles.com/wake-up-call.htm
A realistic view of issues to be considered when considering
implementation of Community Internet projects.

An Executive Overview for Project Planners
on the Hard Questions for Community Internet Empowermenthttp://lone-eagles.com/overview.htm
A hard look at what's not obvious for planning a successful community project.

The Bootstrap Academyhttp://lone-eagles.com/academy.htmDo it yourself! Specific low-cost, short-term youth-driven citizen
engagement
Internet awareness activities. Includes three online mini-courses for citizens, and local
web-raisings.

Additional Resources and Grant
Templates

I'm aware of a boom in social entrepreneurship and
recently found a rather wonderful set of success stories at the corporate
level at
http://www.fastcompany.com/social (In addition to the case studies,
click on the "article" link.) The Grameen Foundation provides $50 microloans
to women in the third world and the women are able to pull themselves and
their families out of poverty - and repay the loans at the 97% level. Alaskan
microloan programs are evolving.

I wrote a chapter on my Alaskan Village experiences for
an academic community networking conference in Australia and at the end I've
listed half a dozen grant templates with implementation specifics for Alaskan
Native Villages.
http://lone-eagles.com/village-sustainability.htm Then, a year later I
was asked to keynote an Australian Government ICT conference and wrote a paper
on Rural Broadband
http://lone-eagles.com/wings.htm After a 12 day tour of 10+ communities
including several Aboriginal villages in the outback - due to receive
broadband, I wrote a trip report for the Govt. Aboriginal programs leader (as
this as the purpose of my government-funded extended holiday http://lone-eagles.com/sparks.htm

Since your background includes Elearning, you might be interested in the
chapter I was asked to write on my personal history as an early adapter of
online learning. This was published in a book of similar "Reflections."
http://lone-eagles.com/history.htm

My resume is at
http://lone-eagles.com/articles/frank.htm Though I've not updated it in
several years. For fun, you might spend a few minutes googling "Frank Odasz"
"Lone Eagle Consulting" "Rural Ecommerce" and "Big Sky Telegraph."

Lone Eagle May
2006 Update
http://lone-eagles.com/lone-eagles-update0506.htm
An update on 2006 Alaskan presentations, Canadian presentations and the ending
of the Montana Choice Rural Ecommerce project. Emphasis of all presentations
is on determining the best Indigenous Broadband Applications.

Alaskan Native
Cultural Web Tour
http://lone-eagles.com/Alaska-Stories.htmExamples of creative new ways Alaskans are sharing Alaska Native culture
with the world via the Internet, and International indigenous innovations.

Alaskan Native Ecommerce Resources

Alaskan Rural
Ecommerce and Telework Strategies
(Twelve two-hour self-directed online lessons)"A Beginner's Guide to Profiting from the Internet" The Alaskan
Version is at
http://lone-eagles.com/akecom.htm and the original non-Native version is
at
http://lone-eagles.com/ecom.htmThis unique train-the-trainers
curriculum is designed for rural learners who have never before taken an
online class. Everyone is invited to do the lessons on their own at no
cost!
If you'd like to join the group listserv to interact with others and would
also prefer have a mentor and be able to ask questions - there is a $49 fee.

The NW
Regional Educational Laboratory has an Alaskan link
http://nwrel.org/cfc/frc/alaska/html. This was truly impressive as it
provides information on State initiatives, resources, links, and highlights
successful programs